The Grand Grimoire
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The Grand Grimoire is a grimoire originally written in Italian some time in the 13th century and supposedly published in Cairo by a person known as Alibek the Egyptian. Also known as "The Red Dragon", this book contains instructions purported to summon Lucifer or Lucifuge Rofocale for the purpose of forming a pact. This book is a rare find, but sections of it are found in Waite's Book of Ceremonial Magic and in Hyatt and Black's Pacts with the Devil.
The book is called "Le Veritable Dragon Rouge" ("The Red Dragon") in Haiti, where it is revered among many practitioners of Voodoo and Santeria.
[edit] In Popular Culture
In the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the Grand Grimoire is a magical book that was once on Noah's Ark, and somehow was thought of as nothing and put into a used book shop. It is bought by one of the main characters, Mewt, who finds that there is a magical entity trapped within the book. The "Entity within the Book" grants Mewt one wish, and Mewt wishes to go to a perfect world. Mewt's dead mother is alive in this dream world, called Ivalice, and it is found out that she is the embodiment of the "Entity within the Book".
In the 1989 motion picture, Warlock, actor Julian Sands plays a warlock trying to find The Grand Grimoire. In the story, the book had truly supernatural properties and was therefore separated into three sets of pages so as to prevent its evil power from being misused. When the sets of pages were united, the book would reveal a long-secret, "true" name of God (the utterance of which would lead to the uncreation of the world). This name was apparently different from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton. I
